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Mired in bad eating habits, Fauntleroy sits sadly on the sideline as the annual New Cabot marathon takes shape. But that’s soon to change as his newfound friend, Pete, helps Fauntleroy alter his habits and his life. It’s a story of friendship and persistence in the face of severe obstacles. It’s also a story that will leave you with tears in your eyes.

Reading-Literature: Second Reader uses well-written folk tales, Mother Goose rhymes, and poetry to teach reading basics. The simple style of the stories and rhymes allows children to read for themselves right away. Second Reader is part of the Reading-Literature Series by Harriette Treadwell and Margaret Free published by Living Books Press. The series challenges the notion that learning to read is a matter of word repetition and phonic drill. Learning to read is an easy road when using literature that captures the child's interest.Reading-Literature: Second Reader is a republication of the 1912 edition. Living Books Press has taken care to faithfully reproduce the type and illustrations of the original. The book includes guidelines for phonics instruction and vocabulary building coordinates with Reading-Literature Teacher's Guide, The Primer and First Reader.

Uses well-written folk tales, Mother Goose rhymes, and poetry to teach reading basics. The text includes vocabulary building and guidelines for phonics instruction. The simple style of the stories and rhymes allows children to read for themselves right away. First Reader is part of the Reading-Literature Series by Harriette Treadwell and Margaret Free published by Living Books Press. The series challenges the notion that learning to read is a matter of word repetition and phonic drill. Learning to read is an easy road when using literature that captures the child's interest.Reading-Literature: First Reader is a republication of the 1911 edition. Living Books Press has taken care to faithfully reproduce the type and illustrations of the original. The book coordinates with Reading-Literature Teaching Guide and The Primer and Second Reader.

In the year 2008, fifteen year-old Emily Grace (Em) discovers a secret hiding place under a wooden plank in the attic of an old house in Petersburg. It conceals a 150 year-old-diary belonging to Sarah Chamberlain, the previous owner of the house. Carefully turning to the last entry, Em’s interest is piqued by the mention of missing confederate gold and a murder mystery. She slips the diary into the pocket of her capris.As she reads the diary, Em is touched by Sarah’s deep love for her husband, Robert. Emotionally, Em’s life is spinning out of control and the diary is a welcome distraction. Each day her faith slips further and further away as she blames God for the many trials and tribulations she has had to endure. After rereading the last page and Robert’s senseless murder, she has one more reason to doubt God’s love for his creation.Em slips the diary back in her pocket planning to return it to the attic before helping her mother clean the old house in Petersburg. While scrubbing black scuffmarks off the kitchen floor, Em has an emotional meltdown airing her list of grievances, including Robert’s murder, before God. As she shouts that she doesn’t believe he really exists, vertigo suddenly hits with a vengeance and she passes out. Regaining consciousness, Em is dumbfounded; the kitchen has been replaced by a nineteenth century parlor.

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVEACTION, PERIL, AND INSPIRATIONMatterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young people who are recruited to keep an eye on the portals of earth that connect all realms of space and time. This second book in the Matterhorn the Brave series finds Matterhorn (Matthew Horn) summoned 10,000 years into the past to the pacific Northwest of America. His mission is to locate the band of Justice, another of the Ten Talis created by the Maker and hidden on Earth by the king of first Realm.Joining him and Aaron the Baron in the quest for the Band are two seasoned travelers: princess Jewel, a beautiful Native American girl who can communicate with animals, and Nate the Great, an Aboriginal tracker and outdoorsman with the uncanny ability to disappear.Following the legends of her people, Princess Jewel leads the way to the hidden city of the Sasquatch where the Band is said to be guarded. Along the way, wild rivers, frequent earthquakes, towering waterfalls, and ancient volcanoes turn their travels into a journey filled with action and adventure at every step.Talis Hunters is volume 2 in the new Matterhorn the Brave series.

H2O is a contemporary crossover women’s novel that tells the story of Kate Pepper, a successful young business woman in Seattle whose life is suddenly—and strangely—turned upside down. Unexplainable visions torment her every time she gets wet. Sinking into despair, frantic to avoid water at any cost, Kate ultimately finds romance and redemption through the advice of simple people who love her for who she is, not what she was. Kate Pepper has it all . . . a razor-sharp intellect, perfect health, stunning beauty, a wildly successful career, and all the money she can spend. Or rather, she thinks she has it all. Despite the perfect shell, there’s something dark inside Kate. Terrible visions send her into a deep depression and her world crumbles. All her business savvy and elite connections don’t make a difference; she has lost control.Who will save her? Xavier, her predatory boyfriend? Or Candice, the Down syndrome waitress at her favorite coffee shop? At the bottom of her dark well, desperate to get out of the water, there’s nowhere to reach but up. H2O—a fascinating allegorical look at success, sanity and spiritual redemption in a young woman’s relationship with water.

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVEEXPLOITS, RISK, AND INSPIRATIONMatterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on the portals of earth that connect all realms of space and time.In Pyramid Scheme, book three of the Matterhorn the Brave series, Matterhorn and his friends are saved from certain death and transported to the Valley of the Kings by a mysterious stranger named Elok. He and a companion named Kyl have tracked heretics from First realm to Egypt. The heretics have begun their conquest of Earth by rewriting history-starting with the murder of King Tut!The Travelers follow the heretics from the City of the Dead to the courts of Pharaoh's Palace. The trail winds through the secret tunnels beneath Karnak Temple and down the Nile to the Great Pyramid.The trip almost becomes a one-way journey when the Travelers's Cube is stolen in broad daylight and assassins attack in the middle of the knight.Matterhorn, the baron, Jewel, Nate, and Sara manage to stay one step ahead of disaster, but always one step behind the heretics.Learn more at www.MatterhornTheBrave.com

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Best-loved Literary Fairytales is a collection of thirteen literary tales penned by the best and most notable writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century-a time considered by many as the golden age of children's literature. Original illustrations include Arthur Rackham, Maude Humphrey, and Kate Greenaway. Readers will delight in the imaginative landscapes each story reveals and the spiritual truths hidden there.

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVEPERIL, EXCITEMENT, AND INSPIRATIONMatterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on the portals of earth that connect all realms of space and time. In this sixth book in the Matterhorn the Brave series, Queen Bea takes the Travelers deep into into the Greenland icecap to find the one man who may be able to save Earth-Rylan the renegade. Rylan is the former Crown Prince who left First Realm before Bea was born, but he wants nothing to do with his past. he has a more pressing problem. Erick the Red and his Vikings are looking for the ice caves where Rylan and his Inuit people live.When Matterhorn and the Baron fall off a glacier and are rescued by Vikings, they meet Erick face-to-face. Quick thinking, hard fighting, and a surprise visit from Freya, Goddess of War, get them out of one scrape and into others.The secrets of Rylan's past—his Talis, his Travel Suit, and his access to the terminus Room—hold the keys to the Travelers' survival and Earth's future.Lear more at www.MatterhornTheBrave.com

From Peter of New Amsterdam. . .“IT SOUNDS ODD TO SAY that an English boy was ever held as slave by the Dutch, and perhaps I have no right to make such statement, because it is not strictly true, although there were many years in my life when I did the same work, and received the same fare, as did the negroes in the early days of New Amsterdam.”Twelve-year-old Peter Hulbert is left an orphan in Leyden, Holland as the rest of the Pilgrims sail for the New World. A merchant of the West India Company takes him to New Amsterdam as his servant. Here Peter’s adventures begin in this historically accurate tale of life in Old New York.The purpose of the stories in the Colonial America Series is to show children the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in their books, while describing the daily life of those people who conquered the wilderness, whether for conscience sake or gain.